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the shooting death of their daughter precipitated his visit to the city. he offered understanding of cities like chicago. president obama recognized this particular kind of gun violence is about more than just weapons used to commit the crimes. it's also about poverty, a lack of access to economic opportunity for all families. the president proposed a policy solution that goes beyond regulating guns to embrace a role for the government in helping lift struggling families out of poverty. we are singing the same tune until the record scratched when he said this. >> we should do more to promote marriage. and encourage fatherhood. we have single mothers that are heroic with what they are doing. we are so proud of them. at the same time, i wish i had a father who was around and involved. somehow, in the middle of a speech on gun violence and poverty, we were smack in the middle of the president's daddy issues. what i heard president obama's father detour, i thought those of you on twitter know what i thought. this is what i tweeted. sigh, the fatherhood thing i
the shooting death of their daughter precipitated his visit to the city. he offered understanding of cities like chicago. president obama recognized this particular kind of gun violence is about more than just weapons used to commit the crimes. it's also about poverty, a lack of access to economic opportunity for all families. the president proposed a policy solution that goes beyond regulating guns to embrace a role for the government in helping lift struggling families out of poverty. we are...
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any american who is cognizant of the weather and them, we flooded the biggest city in the country, we had the hottest year in history last year. i mean how can you deny these things are happening and need to be stopped? >> i want to ask you, this trade off between the idea of jobs for communities that are economically deprived and at a disadvantage. on the other hand, the environment meant that communities of color and poor communities have been set over and against the air they breathe and the water they drink. >> exactly. we'll give you the jobs if you put up with the trash. that's really a false choice. we heard on the panel just now that the economy will create many, many thousands of jobs while the pipeline will produce few. it's an easy choice for most people to make. i look forward to the long term. it's better to go with the green world rather than the awful world that promises to come if we continue in the current path. >> let's pull out to the panel for a minute. it's not just about american citizens. there's a whole canadian question here. >> i was adopted by the blood trib
any american who is cognizant of the weather and them, we flooded the biggest city in the country, we had the hottest year in history last year. i mean how can you deny these things are happening and need to be stopped? >> i want to ask you, this trade off between the idea of jobs for communities that are economically deprived and at a disadvantage. on the other hand, the environment meant that communities of color and poor communities have been set over and against the air they breathe...
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and at the same time another city group will do a different count that night, the new york departme department of youth and development will count homeless and runaway and unaccompanied youth. they are asking the young people to be checking in and be counted throughout the various dropout centers and boroughs in new york city. initially the obama administration initiated youth count! which is an intraagency initiative to count unaccompanied homeless youth up to 24 years old. all municipalities are participating including new york city. so it provides essential data that may shock a nation into action and provide guidance for the resources available. for our part today, we will talk to some people who have their own unique insights. ebony who homeless as a freshman, and derrick who is a dancer and homeless for five years, and ralph acosta who is from the institute of poverty and home le lessness, and bob stewart from demos and jeremy who is an advocate for the homeless advocacy project where he is a sophomore at georgetown university. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and i want to start with you,
and at the same time another city group will do a different count that night, the new york departme department of youth and development will count homeless and runaway and unaccompanied youth. they are asking the young people to be checking in and be counted throughout the various dropout centers and boroughs in new york city. initially the obama administration initiated youth count! which is an intraagency initiative to count unaccompanied homeless youth up to 24 years old. all municipalities...
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long term, and the cities are struggling from all of the cuts that have been made in congress. this is only going to make matters worse. i mean, millions upon millions upon millions of dollars in pennsylvania alone not going back into the economy, how does this help us? >> well, that is the question. how would this help? the one that i think that just -- i am just beside myself today, but the fact that we are already reducing the debt is the part that is really sticking to me. the fact that we are already seeing over a reduction of the debt that we are not in a debt crisis and not only manufactured crisis, but the reason for the manufactured crisis is also manufactured. how is this sort of set of false information so widely available that people believe that we have to make these kinds of cuts? >> so two things. first is lucy analogy. there is not a level of optimism, but there is also a fatigue out there, and you go on the talk about the cuts and the president talks about the cuts and how devastating it is going to be, and the public says, i am tired of it, and you say it ever
long term, and the cities are struggling from all of the cuts that have been made in congress. this is only going to make matters worse. i mean, millions upon millions upon millions of dollars in pennsylvania alone not going back into the economy, how does this help us? >> well, that is the question. how would this help? the one that i think that just -- i am just beside myself today, but the fact that we are already reducing the debt is the part that is really sticking to me. the fact...
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the police cannot provide a study, the city can't provide a study that proves it stops crime. it doesn't exist. >> what claim are you making? what remedy are you seeking? >> this lawsuit is seeking to vindicate the people who have been stopped. >> getting the records expunged? >> vindicate them in the sense that they are innocent folk who is have gone through the stop and frisk process. some of them -- very few of them have been arrested. but what happens is this is not an unintrusive thing. people feel violated. these are terrifying stops for folks. and there's no mechanism by which people can speak out and say, i am an innocent person. i can't do down to the corner store for a quarter of milk, or my kid can't go down without me teaching them to survive, stop and frisk. >> just to that point. stand your ground is one step beyond that. if i deem you suspicious, i can stop and feel you up, or i can shoot you. it's ridiculous. >> and i think it's so important that we don't allow people to describe us as just being bleeding hearted liberals. i am pro public safety. if a i don't t
the police cannot provide a study, the city can't provide a study that proves it stops crime. it doesn't exist. >> what claim are you making? what remedy are you seeking? >> this lawsuit is seeking to vindicate the people who have been stopped. >> getting the records expunged? >> vindicate them in the sense that they are innocent folk who is have gone through the stop and frisk process. some of them -- very few of them have been arrested. but what happens is this is not...
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the assault sparked street battles in cities across the country. the military-led egyptian government has declared a state of emergency and imposed a 9:00 p.m. curfew in cairo and other provinces. president obama on thursday condemned the violence and canceled joint military exercises with egypt, but stopped short of canceling the $1.5 billion in annual military aid and economic aid the u.s. gives egypt. as the president made clear on thursday, the u.s. needs egypt too much to cut off ties. >> given the depths of our partnership with egypt, our national security interests in this pivotal part of the world and our belief that engagement can support a transition back to a democratically elected civilian government, we've sustained our commitment to egypt and its people. but while we want to sustain our relationship with egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back. >> and joining us now from cairo with the very latest news is nbc news foreign correspondent,
the assault sparked street battles in cities across the country. the military-led egyptian government has declared a state of emergency and imposed a 9:00 p.m. curfew in cairo and other provinces. president obama on thursday condemned the violence and canceled joint military exercises with egypt, but stopped short of canceling the $1.5 billion in annual military aid and economic aid the u.s. gives egypt. as the president made clear on thursday, the u.s. needs egypt too much to cut off ties....
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in scores of cities across the country yesterday people frustrated by the verdict in the george zimmerman trial gatheredous federal court houses for peaceful justice for trayvon vigils organization nufd by the reverend al sharpton's national action network. >> we just watched from atlanta to miami to chicago, over 100 cities. we're standing up today for justice for trayvon martin. >> participants spoke out against the violence that claimed trayvon martin's martin's life and so many others. trayvon's father was in miami. >> this could be any one of our children. our mission now is to make sure this doesn't happen to your child. we're going to continue to stand together, we're going to continue to unite. we're going to let them know that our lives matter just as much as your lives. >> the gathering of so many people with crowds numbering in the hundreds in cities seemed cathartic especially with the losses the progressive movement racked up lately. for example, texas, wendy davis delivered an 11-hour filibuster speaking out against radical restrictions on reproductive rights and bringing th
in scores of cities across the country yesterday people frustrated by the verdict in the george zimmerman trial gatheredous federal court houses for peaceful justice for trayvon vigils organization nufd by the reverend al sharpton's national action network. >> we just watched from atlanta to miami to chicago, over 100 cities. we're standing up today for justice for trayvon martin. >> participants spoke out against the violence that claimed trayvon martin's martin's life and so many...
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did young people at all talk about that in connection with the issues of gun violence in the city? >> more of the adults spoke about that than the young people. the young people are just crying out for jobs, mentoring, adults who care someone to care, expanding community programs. that's what they really address. and they also address that as adults we really don't know what the gang is these days, what the gang -- how gangs really operate. something along the line of what professor dyson was saying that is very difficult, it might be block by block, it's not what we think it is or what it was before. >> and if we don't even have good definitions of what we're dealing with, it makes if t. very hard to be effective policy makers. congresswoman robin kelly in chicago, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> and after the break what they call in hip-hop beef, and why harry belafonte is ready to squash it. wait a sec! i found our colors. we've made a decision. great, let's go get you set up... you need brushes... you should check out our workshops... push your c
did young people at all talk about that in connection with the issues of gun violence in the city? >> more of the adults spoke about that than the young people. the young people are just crying out for jobs, mentoring, adults who care someone to care, expanding community programs. that's what they really address. and they also address that as adults we really don't know what the gang is these days, what the gang -- how gangs really operate. something along the line of what professor dyson...